Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has demanded that Israel immediately stop its military aggression in Gaza and Lebanon at the opening of a summit of Arab and Muslim leaders in Riyadh.
In an address before the joint Arab League and Organisation of Islamic Cooperation (OIC) summit on Monday, the crown prince, also known as MBS, condemned the “massacre committed against Palestinian and Lebanese people,” According to Al-Jazeera.
According to MBS, the countries agreed to “mobilize international support to freeze Israel’s membership in the UN.” In addition, the LAS and the OIC are calling on “the international community to begin implementing the plan to create a Palestinian state.
“The draft final statement, according to the channel, also contains “a demand for the UN Security Council to oblige Israel to stop its aggressive policy.” In addition, the Arab and Islamic countries intend to form a “tripartite mechanism to support the Palestinian cause.”
According to The Guardian In her report, Francesca Albanese claimed: “Israel has pursued a pattern of conduct ‘deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction’.”
The second extraordinary summit of the Arab League and OIC member states is being held in Riyadh, dedicated to the situation in the Middle East. The participants of the meeting aim to develop a common position on the conflicts in the Gaza Strip and Lebanon. The summit is a continuation of the highest-level meeting that took place in Riyadh in November 2023.
At that time, the Arab League and OIC members, in particular, called for lifting the blockade on the Gaza Strip, stopping the export of weapons and ammunition to Israel, and also announced their intention to ask the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons to conduct an investigation into the alleged use of white phosphorus munitions by the Israeli military. War
